Retainer for overshoes



Feb, 3. 1925.

RETAINER FOR OVERSHOES ANDERSON Filed Feb. 20, 1924 INVENTOR flCAIZQZQISOIU WITNESSES A TTORNEYS Patented Feb. 3, 1925.

.tjs TAQTETS HENRYoLAY-ANDERsoN, or 'srrmr'onn, K'ENrucKY.

RETAINER FOR OVERSHOES.

Application filed February 20, 1924. Serial No. 694,073.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY CLAY ANDER- SON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Stanford, in the county of Lincoln and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Retainers for Overshoes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a retainer for overshoes, such as rubbers or the like, and has for its object to provide a device of this character which is effective to securely fas ten the rubber or the like to the shoe and to prevent the rubber from slipping off even though the wearer steps into heavy mud, which tends to pull the rear portion of the rubber off of the shoe.

A further object is to provide a device of this character and having the foregoing enumerated advantages and capacities and which is also of simple and durable construction, reliable and easy in operation and adapted to be manufactured at a comparatively slight expense from material and by means of facilities ordinarily available.

A still further object is to provide a device of the character specified which does not interfere with the convenient and easy placing of the rubber on the shoe, and which is readily operable or releasable to permit the wearer to take the rubber from the shoe.

Other objects and advantages of the invention reslde in certain novel features of the construction,combination and arrangement of parts which will be hereinafter more fully described and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, and in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view, showing one embodiment of the invention in use, a part of the rubber being broken away for the sake of illustration;

Figure 2 is a fragmentary view, taken partly in vertical section and partly in side elevation; and

Figure 3 is a group view in perspective, showin parts of the retainer prior to assembly with the rubber.

Referring to the drawing wherein for the sake of illustration is shown one embodiment of the invention, the numeral 5 designates a shoe which may be of any type or style and which includes a heel 6 projecting slightly beyondthe rear end of the shoe below the counter thereof to define a small shoulder 7. A rubber 8 is placed on the shoe and it is to be understood that when the term rubber is used in this application that it refers to the various types of overshoes.

The retainer which constitutes the present invention comprises a fiat strip 10 of spring steel or other material having the requisite degree of resiliency and having at thesame time sufficient rigidity andstrength to carry out its intended purposes.

The strip 10 which constitutes a locking strip is arranged inside ofthe rubber 8 at the rear end thereof and has its upper portion secured by rivets 11 or other suitable fastening means to the upper portion of the rear or heel of the rubber. The lower end of the locking strip 10 is notched and sharpened to provide prongs or spurs 12. Intermediate its ends the strip 10 is bent or bowed, as at 13 so that the prongs 12 are substantially in the same vertical line as the shoulder 7 of the heel 6 of the shoe. Moreover, the strip 10 is of such a length that the prongs 12 are adapted to bite into the shoulder 7 of the heel 6 to retain the rubber 8 on the shoe 5.

With this arrangement the rubber 8 may be readily placed on the shoe 5 since the back of the shoe slides down the locking strip which is smooth and past the spurs 12 until the spurs 12 snap into engagement with the shoulder 7. The resiliency of the strip 10 and the flexibility of the rubber provide for the easy placing of the rubber on the shoe. When the spurs 12 are engaged with the shoulder 7 of the heel the rubber is held on the shoe and will not be pulled therefrom even though the wearer steps into the mud or other substance which adheres to the rubber and which tends strongly to pull the the shoe 5 and its spurs 12 are disengaged bowed intermediate its ends and having its from the shoulder 7 whereupon the rubber lower end formed With spurs adapted to enmay be readily taken from the shoe. gage the heel of the shoe, and an operating I claim: button having a shank extending through 5 A retainer for releasably securing rubbers the rubber and fastened to the locking strip.

on shoes and comprising a locking strip secured to the rubber, said locking strip being HENRY CLAY ANDERSON. 

